[Coco] Announcing the Color Computer Starter Kits

[J Arcane]

This is amazing!

I had a hell of a time getting what minimal OS-9 setup I had in VCC to even
boot.

Thanks for the good work!

John Berry
Some kid who grew up with a CoCo3


On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com
> wrote:

>
> Hi guys,
> A while back (last year) there was talk of putting together some starter
> kits for make it easier for people just getting back into Cocos to get
> started with the real machines, the emulators, DW4, HDBDSO etc. I had
> volunteered to do this. But it was about that time we found the NitrOS9
> repository was a wreck and I decided to wait until we had good repo builds
> to do this.
> Thanks to Tormod, we now have a good NitrOS9 repo and now it's time for
> the "Starter Kits"
>
> These "Starter Kits" include almost everything needed for getting started
> with the Color Computer including the manuals :-)
>
> The first 4 kits are now ready for download. I have:
>
>
> The XRoar Coco 2 w/Becker Port, HDBDOS, DW4, & NitrOS9 L1 Starter Kit
> The XRoar Coco 2b (6847T1 vgd) w/Becker Port, HDBDOS, DW4, & NitrOS9 L1
> Starter Kit
> The Vcc 1.4.3b Coco 3 6809 w/Becker Port, HDBDOS, DW4, & NitrOS9 L2
> Starter Kit
> The Vcc 1.4.3b Coco 3 6309 w/Becker Port, HDBDOS, DW4, & NitrOS9 L2
> Starter Kit
>
>
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/the-color-computer-drivewire4-hdbdos-nitros9-starter-kit
>
>
> I may do the "real" Coco starter Kits next week and will get the Mess
> starter kits as soon as that's available.
> These kits are a "one click" complete installation of all that's needed to
> get started. The only thing that has to be done manually, is to "mount" the
> VHDs (included). These are rather large downloads as they include all
> software installations, manuals for the emulator and operating systems, and
> ready to boot VHD images.
>
> If you try to download these now, you may get a download error as they are
> still uploading. My internet is slow and these are large files. They should
> be ready by Sunday morning (today, it's 3am here).
>
> Enjoy...
>
>
> Bill Pierce
> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
>
>
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